On 6 September 2012 15:28, Stowell Davison <swdavi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I recently installed Fedora 17, 64 bit, on an HP h8-1320t.  The machine has
> an on-board ethernet port (RJ-45).  According to the machine's spec sheet,
> that is device is an "Atheros AR8161L".
>
> Fedora does not see that interface device at all.  Dmesg and
> /var/log/messages contain no mention of "Atheros AR8161L" or any useful
> substring thereof.  There are no *eth0* files in
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.
>
> I know that the port hardware works because I was able to make network
> connections from the machine using MS Windows.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Stowe Davison
> http://nic-nac-project.de/~davison
>

This appears to need the alx driver:
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/alx

Which isn't on my fedora 17 box. You may have some luck trying the
compat-wireless packages:
http://people.redhat.com/sgruszka/compat_wireless.html
(yes, I know ethernet, not wireless, still, that seems to be where it is)

See also
http://www.jfdesignnet.com/?p=2133

It should show up in lspci.

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